Hello, is this kernel is also for KVM hosts? If not, will be? I use elrepo now... T.Weyergraf wrote: > > Hi > > So far, I did some preliminary testing using nested virt: > > host(L0): Fedora 25, kernel-4.9.11-200, kvm+qemu > > Guest(L1): CentOS 7 Xen-4.6.3-7, kernel-4.9.11-22 > > So far, at least the L1 setup had no issues. I'll need to pull L1 > guest-storage from backup to test some L2 guests. > > Likewise, I try to allocate two blades at work for tests on real > metal. Our standard-tests include starting CentOS-5/6/7 guests and > migrate them around. I hope to get this done next week, but I need > company approval for that, which seems doable, as we use Xen4CentOS in > production :) > Running diverse CentOS versions and some Windows Server guests and > being capable of migrating the whole shebang around from machine to > machine is our daily use case. That includes PV, HVM+PV and PVHVM > guest types, which is pretty comprehensive to me. > > Let me know, if you are interested in more detailed > settings/setup/tests and I will see, what I can run. > > Rest assured, that this work is much needed and appreciated. We run > almost 1000 virtual machines on about 70 blades using Xen4CentOS since > day 1. This new kernel gives us the latest drivers in Dom0, something > which is highly desired, as we are seeing issues occasionally, like > bnx2x oops-ing on broadcom 10G interfaces. > > Regards, > Thomas > > On 02/27/2017 02:00 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> >> On 02/21/2017 11:40 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >>> >>> I have pushed some new kernels and linux-firmware packages to the >>> xen-testing repos for both CentOS-6 and CentOS-7. The CentOS-7 packages >>> may take a few hours to make it to the repo. >>> >>> The CentOS-6 repo also contains a newer xfsprogs as that is required >>> with newer kernels >>> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1314605). >>> >>> This kernel (and supplementary xfsprogs, linux-firmware) are scheduled >>> to be the replacements for the 3.18.x LTS tree that has gone EOL from >>> Kernel.org. We can maintain the 4.9 LTS tree until January 2019 >>> (https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html). >>> >>> We have added in blktap2 support to this kernel, please test that >>> functionality if you need it, it seems to be working to me. >>> >>> We really need people to test this kernel and associated packages >>> thoroughly so we can find and fix issues before release. >>> >>> Please post any issues or questions on this list. >> >> >> OK, just tagged 4.9.13-22.el7 (and .el6) to the testing repos for xen on >> c6 and c7 as this fixes the new dccp kernel issue. >> >> Only have one person reporting good tests so far. We need more testing >> or we risk to breaking people's systems when we release later. >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS-virt mailing list >> CentOS-virt at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20170227/91d1c3c4/attachment-0006.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3483 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20170227/91d1c3c4/attachment-0006.bin>